Abstract

The Week

The article presents several developments related to the first World War. The battle in the west is shaping itself more and more on the Verdun model. From the North Sea to the confluence of the Oise and the Aisne the Germans, in the course of six weeks, have tested out virtually the entire line with the exception of the distance between Arras and La Bassée. In this line they found two weak spots and exploited them with great skill, in Picardy and in Flanders. Virtually the last shred of secrecy about Allied shipping losses disappears with the substitution by the British Admiralty of a monthly statement of tonnage sunk for the weekly statement of vessels lost. An obscure clause in the Russian-German peace treaty is that concerning the exchange of prisoners. Recent dispatches seem to indicate a certain unwillingness on Germany's part to let her 2,000,000 Slav captives go back home.